Morning assembly

This is really impressive, and a bit unsettling, when you first see it, but it is among the many things I’m slowly getting used to here. Every morning, the entire school sits in neat rows on the basketball courts in the center of the school campus for morning assembly.

The assembly begins with the Thai national anthem and a Buddhist prayer, followed by up to 40 minutes of instruction and announcements in Thai that I do not understand. It’s quite a sight, particularly on Thursday mornings when the foreign English teachers are asked to do a short skit in front of 3,200 Thai schoolchildren.